10/29/2007 @ 3:00PM

In Pictures: Top-Earning Dead Celebrities

12. Bob Marley

Earnings: $4 million

Occupation: Musician

Died: May 11, 1981

Age: 36

Cause: Cancer

Fifty-Six Hope Road, which manages the Rastafarian superstar’s music on behalf of the Marley family, enjoys royalties from the Marley catalog, including Legend, the bestselling reggae album in history. The family, which also sells Marley-branded apparel and paraphernalia online, is threatening to sue Universal Music (which owns rights to some of Marley’s biggest hits) and Verizon Wireless (nyse: VZ – news – people ), for allegedly selling Marley ringtones without permission.